... but I can't seem to find the answer to my question in the article.
What exactly are they going to be using the graphene for? Is it going to be used for the actual conductive material on circuit boards? Is it going to be used to improve cellphone antennas? Is it going to be used to greatly increase the structural integrity of the phone casing and/or screen? Is it going to be used for some new smell-o-vision capabilities in future phones?! Heat-sink? Transistors?... Your own personal space elevator?!?
orkut is on the list. The list is linked from the article. While orkut may be very popular in a few select countries, it never really caught on worldwide. Personally, I stopped using it because of the massive amount of people that didn't respect the rules and would blast our "English only" community boards with Portuguese. (Back then, it was commonly referred to as the "Crazy Brazilian Invasion".) Us "uneducated folk" could never carry on decent conversations when every single conversation would branch off into 2 or more languages. So we left and waited for Facebook to set up community pages.
Interesting. Now I'd like to see someone come up with statistics like these for Westeros. I want to know things like:
- what the population of Westeros needed to be in order to supply enough man-power to populate and guard all of the castles along the Wall?
- and what kind of crime-rate would that imply?
- and why are there only "nine free cities" in Essos? shouldn't there be potentially hundreds of large cities scattered across the continent if this civilization has been around for somethign like 10,000+ years?
I've been thinking about this stuff lately and it kinda seems to me that humanity is on the verge of extinction. Yep. I honestly don't think ANYONE in the WORLD will survive these books when he finally finishes writing them!
I'm at the other end of the spectrum from you. I wouldn't pay for a 16GB one. I'm using my 8GB Nexus7 as primarily an eBook reader plus have a bunch of MP3s loaded onto it for background music while I'm reading. (well, and also for the general sweetness of other Google/Android apps.)
The way I see it, I'm only really going to be using the network capabilities of my Nexus7 in places where I have Wifi (home, office, possibly friend's places) so I don't see a real need for a large storage capacity. It's not like I'm going to be using it while driving to/from work or going out bar-hopping in the evenings. And I don't think I would ever really want to load more than 1 movie onto it at a time [ie. for a plane trip or something].
For me, 8GB should be more than enough. For others, 16GB might still not quite satisfy.
Personally, paying 25% more for the product isn't worth extra storage space that I would never use. I think Google did a good job at offering these 2 options to try and satisfy us both. Although I DO agree that an SD slot would have actually been the ideal solution.
Hey, if you're going to misquote things, why stop there? Why not just use the quote:
has also granted the Department the authority to seize private facilities
It's all meant to be used only "during a crisis or emergency". "to obtain, to the maximum extent practicable, the survivability of NS/EP [national security and emergency preparedness] communications under all circumstances".
I honestly don't see why this Executive Order was even necessary, considering the law can already commandeer vehicles in cases of reasonable necessity. If there is a crisis, it is your civic duty to assist if the authorities request it. How would communications equipment be any different?
In 2011, Congress considered similar provisions in cybersecurity legislation, which would have allowed the government to disconnect communications traffic in times of national security. Following public protest, congress abandoned the proposal.
Basically, it sounds like the Prez got sick of yet another issue that seemed to get stuck in congress, so he went ahead and passed it anyways.
And one model adds that 'The industry is now moving towards making models show more skin.'
Is it weird that I'm actually impressed that, not only did one of these models come to this stunning realization, but that she could also pronounce a 3-syllable word.
Girls, it's really a basic marketing strategy. For young kids, put bright colors into your product to attract their attention. For adults, sex sells. You use your gimic to draw them in to get a better look at your product. At least, that's how I sees it.
No, not deceptive. He's just showing off his knowledge and understanding of our human religious scriptures, as well as showing that he himself is without sin.
Sheesh. You psychologist-type people will just read ANYthing into some situations.;-)
Oh, so you KNEW your home appliances would eventually turn on you! You just wanted Norton's "routine background scan" to trigger every 30 minutes to slow your own personal Skynet down to a crawl. You know, so you'd have time to go get a snack before the next foray.
You obviously haven't read the fine-print in their new agreement. One of the updates is that GoogleCalendar is changing. Months always start on Thursdays from now on. And there will be 14 months per year. Google's moon-base is still working on speeding up the moon's revolution, but it should be ready [out of Beta] by the end of 2012.
... I'm actually worried about OTHER people's search results. People who don't know any better than to go look for information outside of their social circles.
If I search for "origin of species", I'll see references to Charles Darwin. If students in Kansas look it up, they'll probably see all kinds of links to creationism and how evolution is wrong/evil.
(and no, i don't mean to start a flamewar with that. it's just the first example that popped into my head where different social circles could see completely different results.)
This personalization of search results is gonna make http://lmgtfy.com/ obsolete too. And that makes me a saaaaad panda.
its relational database, SQL Server, and its platform cloud, Windows Azure, an online service for hosting and readily scaling applications
That's wonderful that the summary mentions what "SQL Server" and "Azure" are... but why no mention of wtf "Hadoop" is? Why do I need to RTFA just to find out what we're talking about here?
Hadoop — an open source platform for crunching epic amounts of a data across an army of dirt-cheap servers
I distinctly recall reading several articles (probably about 10 years ago?) saying how scientists were able to generate large quantities of spider silk ["synthetic" spider silk? call it whatever you want...] by genetically altering cows and just milking them. The silk could then be extracted from the cow milk.
After 10 years, no one has tried to improve on this extraction process? Kinda baffling that they would even start down that path if they weren't really going to follow up on it...
While I understand the general concept of how GPS locating works (your device captures timestamps from 3-or-more various global positioning satellites, then calculates where in the world you are), I've always been curious about how accurrate they can actually be.
If you are going to calculate, down to sub-centimeter distances, where your device is, wouldn't you need to know the EXACT location of these satellites, down to the sub-centimeter level of its altitude/lattitude/longitude? Like, if one of the satellites drifts slightly out of place from where they think it is, couldn't that throw off all calculations?
I always thought GPS could only determine your location down to roughly a 5-meter range because that's as good a guess that anyone could make as to where in orbit they are. No?
All I can think of is that maybe there are ground stations that the satellites use to find THEIR locations in orbit, kind of a GPS-locating that the orbiting satellites use... but I haven't really heard of any of that. Anyone know anything about this? Just curious.
So, you are one of those nerds who likes to feel superior to or at least different from most other nerds by joining a tiny subculture inside of a shitty game and sticking with it. Then you enjoy defending said shitty game, while everyone else just plays games that aren't shitty. Just like people who stuck with Everquest after WoW came out
heh, sounds like you have some issues there buddy.
But to retort: 1. "feel superior" - when did I say anything like that? I just said everyone can have their own opinion and I've only seen negative feedback on those sites, while I know plenty of people that still play the game. 2. "sticking with it" - dude, the game has been out for like 2 weeks. most wouldn't consider "sticking with it" until you at LEAST get out of your initial trial period from when you bought the game. 3. calling FFXIV and EQ "shitty games" and WoW is NOT a shitty game - yeah, you called me "one of those nerds who likes to feel superior" and then you start slinging this. mmmmkay. 4. name-calling - yeah, very mature. (sounds like flame-bait but i'll bite. also, my initial post was marked Troll, and this was marked Insightful. curious.)
A good graph has units and numbers, you insensitive clods
Uhhh I don't There's no "graph" here. It's a 2-dimensional picture of a 3-dimensional universe. Closer objects will appear bigger than further away objects. You can't exactly draw a "1 cm = 1,000 light years" bar on this image.
Traditional fishing would be obsolete. Just "recruit" the fish into the net.
Great. So, only the dumb fish that can't distinguish between natural fish and robofish are the ones that will be tricked into our nets. This leaves only the most intelligent fish left in the sea. What, are you trying to speed-along evolution and create a new breed of smart-fish that will probably eventually turn against mankind for abusing/polluting their habitat? ARE YOU MAD?!
In his April speech outlining NASA's future, President Obama said there would be $3.1 billion for the development of a new heavy lift rocket to fly manned and unmanned spaceflights into deep space. Obama said he wanted this technologically advanced rocket to be designed and ready to build by 2015
Funny. I always thought "deep space" was like "other star systems". So I looked it up.
If the religious fanatics say "sex is immoral", well, it's not like there's gonna be any MORE pr0n online. It's just giving them a different web address to use.
And by using.xxx it will make censoring it on your home computer(s) a LOT easier for parents who don't want their kids looking for any of it.
Or has it always been big corporations that have been opposing it, so that no one buys up coca-cola.xxx or something?
if you'd take a lot of stars and planets, and put them together (but not too close together), then at one point if you make this large enough, it'll also be a black hole: there appears an event horizon around all this matter. But inside of it are still stars with gaps between them, maybe some planets orbiting around them
Are you suggesting gravity doesn't exist inside an event horizon? O.o
All of the matter making up these stars and planets would gravitate towards each other and become one massive object.
And if they are far enough apart that gravity can't pull them all together, you get.... what? a "solar system"? Clearly there's no event horizon around us, because then we wouldn't be able to observer other solar systems. So lets go bigger... galaxies? No, we can see other galaxies too, so no event horizons around them either.
Basically, if your body of matter isn't dense enough, then you're not going to get an event horizon because light should be able to easily move away from your body of matter. I'm sure some physics major could supply you with the appropriate equations (i'm just a lowly comp sci geek... and should be working and not trying to explain this right now! lol) but simply put: gravity gets weaker as you move further away from the center of your body of mass. If you have light moving about freely inside your event horizon... then, um... you're using the wrong definition of "event horizon".
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... but I can't seem to find the answer to my question in the article.
What exactly are they going to be using the graphene for? ... Your own personal space elevator?!?
Is it going to be used for the actual conductive material on circuit boards?
Is it going to be used to improve cellphone antennas?
Is it going to be used to greatly increase the structural integrity of the phone casing and/or screen?
Is it going to be used for some new smell-o-vision capabilities in future phones?!
Heat-sink? Transistors?
orkut is on the list.
The list is linked from the article.
While orkut may be very popular in a few select countries, it never really caught on worldwide. Personally, I stopped using it because of the massive amount of people that didn't respect the rules and would blast our "English only" community boards with Portuguese. (Back then, it was commonly referred to as the "Crazy Brazilian Invasion".) Us "uneducated folk" could never carry on decent conversations when every single conversation would branch off into 2 or more languages. So we left and waited for Facebook to set up community pages.
stare him directly in the eyes and, in an outrageous French accent, curtly state "MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!"
Funny. At first glance I thought it was actually "HCl", which is something that you would not exactly want on your head.
Interesting. Now I'd like to see someone come up with statistics like these for Westeros.
I want to know things like:
- what the population of Westeros needed to be in order to supply enough man-power to populate and guard all of the castles along the Wall?
- and what kind of crime-rate would that imply?
- and why are there only "nine free cities" in Essos? shouldn't there be potentially hundreds of large cities scattered across the continent if this civilization has been around for somethign like 10,000+ years?
I've been thinking about this stuff lately and it kinda seems to me that humanity is on the verge of extinction.
Yep. I honestly don't think ANYONE in the WORLD will survive these books when he finally finishes writing them!
I knew someone was gonna say that.
I'm at the other end of the spectrum from you.
I wouldn't pay for a 16GB one. I'm using my 8GB Nexus7 as primarily an eBook reader plus have a bunch of MP3s loaded onto it for background music while I'm reading. (well, and also for the general sweetness of other Google/Android apps.)
The way I see it, I'm only really going to be using the network capabilities of my Nexus7 in places where I have Wifi (home, office, possibly friend's places) so I don't see a real need for a large storage capacity. It's not like I'm going to be using it while driving to/from work or going out bar-hopping in the evenings. And I don't think I would ever really want to load more than 1 movie onto it at a time [ie. for a plane trip or something].
For me, 8GB should be more than enough.
For others, 16GB might still not quite satisfy.
Personally, paying 25% more for the product isn't worth extra storage space that I would never use. I think Google did a good job at offering these 2 options to try and satisfy us both. Although I DO agree that an SD slot would have actually been the ideal solution.
Hey, if you're going to misquote things, why stop there? Why not just use the quote:
It's all meant to be used only "during a crisis or emergency". "to obtain, to the maximum extent practicable, the survivability of NS/EP [national security and emergency preparedness] communications under all circumstances".
I honestly don't see why this Executive Order was even necessary, considering the law can already commandeer vehicles in cases of reasonable necessity. If there is a crisis, it is your civic duty to assist if the authorities request it. How would communications equipment be any different?
Basically, it sounds like the Prez got sick of yet another issue that seemed to get stuck in congress, so he went ahead and passed it anyways.
Is it weird that I'm actually impressed that, not only did one of these models come to this stunning realization, but that she could also pronounce a 3-syllable word.
Girls, it's really a basic marketing strategy. For young kids, put bright colors into your product to attract their attention. For adults, sex sells. You use your gimic to draw them in to get a better look at your product.
At least, that's how I sees it.
No, not deceptive.
He's just showing off his knowledge and understanding of our human religious scriptures, as well as showing that he himself is without sin.
Sheesh. You psychologist-type people will just read ANYthing into some situations. ;-)
Oh, so you KNEW your home appliances would eventually turn on you! You just wanted Norton's "routine background scan" to trigger every 30 minutes to slow your own personal Skynet down to a crawl. You know, so you'd have time to go get a snack before the next foray.
You obviously haven't read the fine-print in their new agreement. One of the updates is that GoogleCalendar is changing. Months always start on Thursdays from now on. And there will be 14 months per year. Google's moon-base is still working on speeding up the moon's revolution, but it should be ready [out of Beta] by the end of 2012.
... I'm actually worried about OTHER people's search results. People who don't know any better than to go look for information outside of their social circles.
If I search for "origin of species", I'll see references to Charles Darwin.
If students in Kansas look it up, they'll probably see all kinds of links to creationism and how evolution is wrong/evil.
(and no, i don't mean to start a flamewar with that. it's just the first example that popped into my head where different social circles could see completely different results.)
This personalization of search results is gonna make http://lmgtfy.com/ obsolete too. And that makes me a saaaaad panda.
That's wonderful that the summary mentions what "SQL Server" and "Azure" are... but why no mention of wtf "Hadoop" is?
Why do I need to RTFA just to find out what we're talking about here?
in this case, that $5 difference can also be seen as a 20% increase in cost.
I distinctly recall reading several articles (probably about 10 years ago?) saying how scientists were able to generate large quantities of spider silk ["synthetic" spider silk? call it whatever you want...] by genetically altering cows and just milking them. The silk could then be extracted from the cow milk.
After 10 years, no one has tried to improve on this extraction process? Kinda baffling that they would even start down that path if they weren't really going to follow up on it...
While I understand the general concept of how GPS locating works (your device captures timestamps from 3-or-more various global positioning satellites, then calculates where in the world you are), I've always been curious about how accurrate they can actually be.
If you are going to calculate, down to sub-centimeter distances, where your device is, wouldn't you need to know the EXACT location of these satellites, down to the sub-centimeter level of its altitude/lattitude/longitude? Like, if one of the satellites drifts slightly out of place from where they think it is, couldn't that throw off all calculations?
I always thought GPS could only determine your location down to roughly a 5-meter range because that's as good a guess that anyone could make as to where in orbit they are. No?
All I can think of is that maybe there are ground stations that the satellites use to find THEIR locations in orbit, kind of a GPS-locating that the orbiting satellites use... but I haven't really heard of any of that. Anyone know anything about this? Just curious.
heh, sounds like you have some issues there buddy.
But to retort:
1. "feel superior" - when did I say anything like that? I just said everyone can have their own opinion and I've only seen negative feedback on those sites, while I know plenty of people that still play the game.
2. "sticking with it" - dude, the game has been out for like 2 weeks. most wouldn't consider "sticking with it" until you at LEAST get out of your initial trial period from when you bought the game.
3. calling FFXIV and EQ "shitty games" and WoW is NOT a shitty game - yeah, you called me "one of those nerds who likes to feel superior" and then you start slinging this. mmmmkay.
4. name-calling - yeah, very mature. (sounds like flame-bait but i'll bite. also, my initial post was marked Troll, and this was marked Insightful. curious.)
Apparently some people feel ripped-off because they paid for something and they ended up not liking it. So they write a bad review.
The rest of us that like it, just play the game. (NO TIME 2 RITE REVIEWZ!!!!! MUST LVL!!111!)
Uhhh I don't There's no "graph" here. It's a 2-dimensional picture of a 3-dimensional universe. Closer objects will appear bigger than further away objects. You can't exactly draw a "1 cm = 1,000 light years" bar on this image.
Great. So, only the dumb fish that can't distinguish between natural fish and robofish are the ones that will be tricked into our nets. This leaves only the most intelligent fish left in the sea. What, are you trying to speed-along evolution and create a new breed of smart-fish that will probably eventually turn against mankind for abusing/polluting their habitat? ARE YOU MAD?!
Funny. I always thought "deep space" was like "other star systems". So I looked it up.
One definition: any region of outer space beyond the system of the earth and moon
And another: space beyond the limits of the solar system
I'm guessing he meant the former definition since it's such a short timeframe.
Just thought I'd share!
So, why have they been rejecting it for so long?
If the religious fanatics say "sex is immoral", well, it's not like there's gonna be any MORE pr0n online. It's just giving them a different web address to use.
And by using .xxx it will make censoring it on your home computer(s) a LOT easier for parents who don't want their kids looking for any of it.
Or has it always been big corporations that have been opposing it, so that no one buys up coca-cola.xxx or something?
Grandma not-see
Are you suggesting gravity doesn't exist inside an event horizon? O.o
All of the matter making up these stars and planets would gravitate towards each other and become one massive object.
And if they are far enough apart that gravity can't pull them all together, you get.... what? a "solar system"? Clearly there's no event horizon around us, because then we wouldn't be able to observer other solar systems. So lets go bigger... galaxies? No, we can see other galaxies too, so no event horizons around them either.
Basically, if your body of matter isn't dense enough, then you're not going to get an event horizon because light should be able to easily move away from your body of matter. I'm sure some physics major could supply you with the appropriate equations (i'm just a lowly comp sci geek... and should be working and not trying to explain this right now! lol) but simply put: gravity gets weaker as you move further away from the center of your body of mass. If you have light moving about freely inside your event horizon... then, um... you're using the wrong definition of "event horizon".